Grand opening
The long-awaited opening of the Agricultural Products Processing Training Centre (VCZZP) of the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources (FAFNR) took place on the morning of 28 June.
The opening speeches and ribbon cutting were given by Petr Sklenička, Rector of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; Josef Soukup, Dean of FAFNR; Zdeněk Nekula, Minister of Agriculture; David Farský, Director of VCZZP; Dana Večeřová, President of the Czech Food Chamber; and Jaroslav Kladiva, representing PKS, the company that built the pavilion. The speakers particularly emphasised the enormous potential of the new pavilion for educating students and developing new technologies.
Among other things, FAFNR Dean Soukup mentioned the prestigious DRIFTFOOD project, which is starting at the faculty under the leadership of the world-renowned expert Prof. Constantinos Stathopoulos, with the aim of building a leading research centre of advanced technologies for high-quality, safe and sustainable regional food production.
The Training Centre comprises six food production facilities, focusing on meat processing, dairy products, bakery and confectionery production, fruit and vegetable processing, beer brewing and oil pressing. In addition to these technologies, the building also houses a sensory laboratory, a nutrition advice centre, a catering kitchen and a craft shop.
Interest in seeing the centre, a unique project not only in the Czech Republic but also in Central Europe, was huge. Guided tours of the pavilion continued until late in the afternoon. Almost five hundred visitors also had the chance to taste honest, delicious products made in the pavilion at a tasting buffet.
From the new academic year, the Training Centre will serve primarily students, who will not only be able to look inside the food production facilities but also get to know the individual technologies first-hand during their placements. We look forward to the new production methods and knowledge that VCZZP will bring.
CZU Podcast
The new pavilion of the Agricultural Products Processing Training Centre of the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources has been built on the campus of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. It is a unique project not only in the Czech Republic but also in Central Europe. The building brings together 6 food production facilities, and you will also find a small craft shop there. How does it benefit students, and what makes this project, worth more than 400 million crowns, unique? And what can we find inside the pavilion? Today’s guest on the Podcast plného života, Ing. David Farský, director of the newly established centre, reveals all.
Podcast plného života episode on Spotify
Key facts
The Agricultural Products Processing Training Centre brings together six food technologies, along with a catering kitchen, a sensory laboratory, nutrition advice, training facilities and its own shop, all under one roof. It will significantly improve the quality of teaching at the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, CZU Prague, especially in degree programmes focused on food science, the quality of agricultural production and nutritional counselling
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